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Stories about: cosmic microwave background

Measuring the Temperature of the Distant Universe with a Molecule With the help of the Very Large Telescope, ESO astronomers have recently obtained an ultraviolet signature of carbon monoxide molecules inside a well hidden galaxy located 11 billion light years away from Earth. The VLT used its UVES spectrograph for a period of 8 hours to study the galaxy, during which time it obtai... 13 May 2008 03:42 GMT